---
title: "The ACM's digital library is open to all until July"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 260
published_at: "2020-04-01"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/260"
---

Plus how Unix pipes work, Chrome postpones dropping TLS 1.0/1.1 support, and Stack Overflow goes 'dark.'       

#260 — April 1, 2020 

[Read on the Web](https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/260)   

Rest assured, it's April 1 but this is a 'no April Fools allowed' issue 🙂  StatusCode Weekly Covering the week's news in software development, ops, platforms, and tooling.  

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[ACM Digital Library Open to All Until June 30, 2020](https://dl.acm.org/) — The ACM (one of the biggest computing academic societies) has kindly opened its digital library (which is packed with interesting papers, research and books) for free for the next three months. There’s _so much_ in here, but how about a report on [the evolution of Lua](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1238844.1238846), a [history of Erlang](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1238844.1238850) or, if you’re brave, [the early history of COBOL?](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800025.1198367) 

ACM   

[OpenTelemetry Now in Beta](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/03/opentelemetry-is-now-beta.html) — [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/) is a set of APIs, libraries, agents and collector services for capturing traces from cloud-native apps for analysis in tools like Prometheus and Jaeger. The first wave of beta releases includes the Collector and SDKs for Erlang, Go, Java, JavaScript, and Python. 

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[How Are Unix Pipes Implemented?](https://toroid.org/unix-pipe-implementation) — Some serious spelunking kernel-wise here. Just _how_ do those all important pipes work? Well, we need to go back to 1973.. 

Abhijit Menon-Sen   

[MeiliSearch: Fast, Open Source Full Text Search Database](https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch) — Think of this as a zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch. It’s built in Rust and supports things like tolerating typos in queries, filters, synonym checks, and is well suited for fast ‘as you type’ searches. 

MeiliSearch   

[An Architecture for a Multilingual Wikipedia](http://simia.net/download/multilingualwikipedia.pdf) — An interesting paper from the creator of [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page) that proposes a way to architect an ‘abstract’ Wikipedia where content can be rendered down into multiple languages as necessary. There’s a lot to chew on here. 

Denny Vrandecic     

**Quick bytes:** 

- Chromium/Chrome has [postponed the removal of TLS 1.0/1.1 support](https://twitter.com/notyetsecure/status/1244640711363792896) to version 83 to prevent short term breakages/extra work.
- GitLab is [open sourcing 18 of its usually paid-only features](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/30/new-features-to-core/) including a Web terminal, CI tools, and issue management tools.
- AMD's new Ryzen 4000 seems like it might deliver '[game changing performance for laptops](https://www.pcworld.com/article/3534769/ryzen-4000-review-amds-7nm-ryzen-9-offers-game-changing-performance-for-laptops.html)'.
- Stack Overflow now has [a 'dark mode'.](https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/03/30/introducing-dark-mode-for-stack-overflow/)
- Google is [cancelling its usual April Fools' jokes](https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/27/21197260/google-cancels-april-fools-jokes-2020-coronavirus-covid19-pranks) this year. Phew.
- Zoom (a remote conferencing company/tool doing _rather well_ right now) uses [some sneaky manoeuvres](https://twitter.com/c1truz_/status/1244737672930824193) to ease installation on macOS.
- A [US court has ruled](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/court-violating-a-sites-terms-of-service-isnt-criminal-hacking/) that violating a site's Terms of Service is not 'criminal hacking'. Good to know.
- [Hashicorp](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-the-cncf/) (Terraform, Vault, etc.) has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
- Amazon RDS now [supports Postgres 12.](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/03/amazon-rds-now-supports-postgresql-12/)   

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📕 Tutorials, Stories, and Opinions  

[How to Scope Down Pull Requests](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/03/31/how-to-scope-down-prs/) — Being able to turn your working into more _manageable_ PRs is a valuable skill. Here, Sarah Drasner shows off why and how. 

Sarah Drasner   

[Finding the Right On-Premise PaaS for Kubernetes](https://bram.dingelstad.xyz/blog/finding-the-right-paas-for-k8s/) — One developer’s journey to finding the right way to run Kubernetes before settling for Rio. 

Bram Dingelstad   

[How To Make Life Easier When Using Git](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/make-life-easier-when-using-git/) — Lots of useful bits and pieces in here. 

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DeegC   

[A Sneaky Way to Sort 1 Million 8 Digit Numbers with 1 MB of RAM](https://stackoverflow.com/a/13000176/3951) — Don’t use _this_ in production ;-) 

Stack Overflow   

[A Definitive Guide to Enabling Italics in Vim and `tmux`](https://rsapkf.netlify.com/blog/enabling-italics-vim-tmux) 

rsapkf   

[How to Use AWS Lambda Authorizers with Third-Party Identity Providers](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/use-aws-lambda-authorizers-with-a-third-party-identity-provider-to-secure-amazon-api-gateway-rest-apis/) — A guide to using Lambda functions to secure API Gateway APIs by authorizing against third party identity providers using OAuth. 

Bryant Bost   

[An Exploratory Guide to Service Mesh Platforms](https://thenewstack.io/an-exploratory-guide-to-the-service-mesh-platforms/) — This article attempts to help compare and contrast some of the mainstream service mesh platforms available in the cloud native ecosystem. 

Janakiram MSV   

[How to Burn The Most Money with a Single Click in Azure](https://mijailovic.net/2020/03/28/azure-money-burning/) — A case of where UI might not meet reality.. but if you’re ready to attempt an 801 million Euro API call.. 

Nemanja Mijailovic  

🛠 Code and Tools  

[Lens: An Open Source IDE for Managing Kubernetes Clusters](https://k8slens.dev/) — [k9s](https://github.com/derailed/k9s) is a similar tool if you prefer something CLI-based. 

Lakend Labs   

[simdjson 0.3: The Fastest JSON Parser in The World Is Even Better](https://lemire.me/blog/2020/03/31/we-released-simdjson-0-3-the-fastest-json-parser-in-the-world-is-even-better/) — An open source C++ library with one goal: parse JSON documents very fast (how does 3 gigabytes per second sound?) 

Daniel Lemire   

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[AsyncAPI: A Specification to Create Machine-Readable Definitions of Asynchronous APIs](https://github.com/asyncapi/asyncapi) 

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[Maza: A Local Ad Blocker That's Like Pi-Hole but on Your Own OS](https://github.com/tanrax/maza-ad-blocking) 

Andros Fenollosa   

[Kpt: A Kubernetes Packaging Tool from Google](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/03/kpt-packaging-up-your-kubernetes.html) — Kpt uses a standard format to bundle, publish, customize, update, and apply configuration manifests. 

Google   

[Dolt: It's Like Git But for Data](https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-03-30-dolt-use-cases/) — Instead of versioning files, Dolt versions tables, and it’s built in Go. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt) 

Tim Sehn   

[Secor: Persist Kafka Logs to S3, GCS, Azure, or Openstack Swift](https://github.com/pinterest/secor) 

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